Article
Polyclonal Mycobacterium avium complex infections in patients with nodular bronchiectasis.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Oct 1998
Wallace R J, Zhang Y, Brown B A, Dawson D, Murphy D T, Wilson R, Griffith D E
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) isolates among patients with chronic lung disease were studied for their heterogeneity using genetic identification methods, pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and seroagglutination. A mean of 7.3 cultures per patient were collected from 17 patients with nod...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Agglutination
- Bronchiectasis
- Chronic Disease
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
